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Apple TV Color Balance Feature May Make Image Quality and Colors Worse
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The reviewer, Vincent Teoh, is very Apple-neutral: he’s praised Apple in the past, and he’s criticized them just as often. His primary review equipment costs north of $50k, so he can provide as-accurate-as-possible-answers.
After watching his video, my assumptions about Apple’s new ‘calibration’ feature were confirmed: if you care enough about accuracy to have already had your display calibrated (or at least did your own basic calibrations), then this feature won’t provide any benefit. But, for the 95% of average Joes and Janes who’ve never touched picture settings, this new feature will likely result in their display being more accurate.
After watching his video, my assumptions about Apple’s new ‘calibration’ feature were confirmed: if you care enough about accuracy to have already had your display calibrated (or at least did your own basic calibrations), then this feature won’t provide any benefit. But, for the 95% of average Joes and Janes who’ve never touched picture settings, this new feature will likely result in their display being more accurate.
Obviously, I don't agree - my TV looks stunning after fine-tuning.
But you won't convince me and I won't convince you, and that's fine.
I bought a Sony x950h around April last year. To my eyes it looks fantastic out of the box. The only thing I change on it is TV channels. And I’ve had more than enough time with it watching regular TV, 4K HDR 10 and Dolby vision movies on disk as well as streamed, regular blue ray disks, and not once did I see anything that looked odd or weird or noticeably off to the point where I might want to fiddle with the picture settings. At the end of the day all I want is a great looking picture and not a picture that, well….I guess its supposed to look that way.
On my SONY TV the Apple calibrated picture is somewhat greenish. But I loved the calibration process itself. Best experience I've ever had with calibrating anything...
I actually wish manufacturers would do the exact opposite. I want a screen only with multiple ports and ultra slim that will last, no speakers, no smart features or anything. Just a screen.
That is correct. If you measure an output device, you can estimate (note estimate, because it doesn't guarantee an exact response, particularly given that people may not allow these to warm up sufficiently), however the input to the TV has a limited number of bits available. You can't do anything about that.
Also, any adjustments to the per channel range, which are the only way to achieve things like adjustment of white balance from a software perspective, work by shrinking the range of 1-2 channels, meaning you do in fact lose gamut.
That part is not correct. While consumer grade devices have gotten way better over the years for this type of stuff, you can't do very much with software based adjustments. They hit a wall very very fast, and you may not immediately realize this, as not all media covers the full range of what a typical television can display.
It means what it says.
Every set is different mine looked like **** as did most I’ve read about. My set is on the upper scale of Samsung TV’s. I never thought it would or could do better but I gave it a whirl. You somehow think that paragraph you cut and pasted was good?